Whack an ordinary nail half-way in, then crop the head off (you might need bolt cutters, depending on the size of nail). This forms a point of sorts. This solves two problems at once, because driving in a double-point nail isn't straightforward.
A trick a joiner gave me for nailing narrow beads or nailing within 10mm of the end of a strip is to hammer the pointy end of the nail, to take the pointy bit of the point off. This makes the nail punch through the grain rather than separate and split it. It works but i may not have explained it very well.
edit... this illustrates it. (one light whack is usually enough... the pic looks like three whacks)
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